Teaching Kids Programming Teaching Kids Programming TKPTKP

Jan 2011 – April 2011Jan 2011 – April 2011

Lynn Langit – Sr. Developer Evangelist http://blogs.msdn.com/SoCalDevGal

Activities in 2011 Q1 Teaching Training Teachers Writing Courseware Partnerships with non-profits Partner with new SmallBasic developer team Getting Resources (Donations)

Teaching 2011 OC, CA - 6 San Jose, CA - 8 Inland Empire, CA - 4 Seattle, WA - 1 Phoenix, AZ - 7 Minneapolis, MN - 1 Johannesburg, South Africa - 1 Copenhagen, Denmark - 2

22 sessions world-wide, (775 students) delivered in Q1 2011

New Teachers 2011 Ashley Myers – Seattle, WA Dustin Hotard – Irvine, CA Megan O’Rourke – San Diego, CA Rebecca Madison – Irvine, CA Candice Lei – Los Angeles, CA Nicole Bluto – Irvine, CA Telmo Sampio – Miami, FL

7 new teachers trained in Q1 2011. These addition bring the total number of (known) trained TKP teachers to 35 world-wide.

New Courseware / Methods Homework (Koans)

SQUARE & HOUSES Variations (Katas)

HOUSES Teacher Training Materials

Website TTT videos Best Practices Virtual Proctor documentation Cheat Sheets Teach from the Cloud (SQL Azure)

Courseware – Intentional Coding, Recipes

Querying the Cloud for ‘Hotness’

SmallBasic Language Pair with new Developer Team

Bug fixes & Feature Prototyping SmallBasic Extensions

New / Update / Translate (Localize)

Partnerships 2011 Vital Link – OC, CA IGNITE – Seattle, WA TechBridge – San Jose, CA Dare2BDigital – San Jose, CA SQLPass / SQL Saturday - National Desert Code Camp – Phoenix, AZ DigiGirlz (Microsoft) - global

Needs Netbooks Classroom sites (offices) Kids (non profits / schools) Teachers Proctors Courseware editors Translators Program evaluators Program Administrators / Logistics

Planned for 2011

Invited speakers CS & IT National Symposium

Invited speakers Agile 2011

NetBook (classroom-in-a-box)

Future Directions Deeper Integration

with US National School System

Corporate Sponsorship

Non-profit status Cloud hosting /

virtual classrooms Teacher Guide

(written)